Search: 85 results found for "yoruba heritage"

Caricature of the Nigerian rapper Phyno with a full beard, purple hoodie and cap, hands clasped, glancing to the side.

Curator's Note

An homage to the rapper who made Igbo sound like the obvious choice. Clement Obioha exaggerates the beard and the bulk and leaves the side-…

Igbo

Phyno

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Dense black-and-white line drawing of a young woman with spiral-patterned hair and a decorated pot on her head, beside a tall staff, in a landscape of hills and fields drawn in flowing parallel lines.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

Yeko builds sky, hills and girl from one rhythm of strokes, until it is hard to tell where the young woman ends and the earth begins.

Ugandan

Village Girl

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Square black-and-white illustration of two mirrored profiles facing outward, heavy brows and hatched marks under the eyes, large roundels above and a black diamond at the centre.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Janus 2 moves in close: two heavy-browed profiles fill the square, a hatched teardrop beneath each eye, a black diamond hanging where they …

Hausa

Janus 2

Ibrahim Buhari GamboIbrahim B. G.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

The power here is in the angle: she is turned away from us, looking forward. Then you find the map of Africa inked on her neck, and the por…

Undeclared

Black Woman

Yr. 2021

Emmanuel AbakahEmmanuel A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Geometric illustration of a heart made of overlapping crystal shards in yellow, orange, blue and pink, outlined by translucent facets, on a deep purple background.

LTD. 15/15

Curator's Note

Look twice: what reads as a single heart is two, conjoined, cut from brilliant crystal shards. Anth Ezeokoye makes the join almost invisibl…

Igbo

Stronger Together

Yr. 2021

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

3.25 (4)

From$450· Limited Edition· Ltd. Ed.

Square black-and-white pattern drawing of a central five-petal flower with curling banded petals, surrounded by dense leaves, scrolls, hatching and straight radiating lines.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Start at the white star in the centre and follow one petal outward. Ibrahim packs leaves, scrolls and hatching so densely that every return…

Hausa

Zen Flower

Ibrahim Buhari GamboIbrahim B. G.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black ink line drawing of a tall woman in a headwrap and long garment holding a staff, walking through water patterned with circles, with mountains, a field of crops, a wavy sky and a round moon.

LTD. 15/15

Curator's Note

Yeko calls it a spiritual journey of self discovery and growth. Her tall, unhurried woman walks through water drawn as a field of circles. …

Ugandan

River Journey

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$450· Limited Edition· Ltd. Ed.

Painterly photograph of drummers in cream robes and caps walking in procession, dark red drums at their sides, on red earth under a bright blue sky, with an arch and crowd at right.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Tajudeen photographed a procession of drummers in cream robes under a hard blue sky, then reworked it until it moved like paint. The faces …

Inspired by the Nupe royal court

Royal Drummers

Yr. 2019

Omotayo TajudeenOmotayo T.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of an angular orange mask-like face with heavy-lidded eyes glancing sideways, scalloped pattern on the cheeks, blue planes under brow and chin, before two overlapping pale suns.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

There is a moment when something long known becomes clear. Mikenobi gives it a carved face, in the spirit of the Igbo carvings that give fo…

Igbo

Introspection

Yr. 2023

Michael C. EkenobiMichael C. E.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital artwork of a frontal head and neck covered in black and white marbling, with teal, pink and pale blue lilies behind it and a black sphere beside the cheek, on a deep violet background.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

The face is all there, looking straight at us, and still it nearly vanishes. Black and white marbling runs across the features until skin b…

Undeclared

Camouflage

Yr. 2023

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

A woman's head floats a hand's width above her shoulders and casts its own shadow. Clement Obioha turns the caricaturist's instinct inward,…

Igbo

Monologue

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Painting of a woman in pink and purple tones with two afro puffs and a dark strapless top, glancing sideways beside a bright window against an orange wall.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Clement's feminist is a woman who builds the life of her dreams, carries a man's load and keeps a woman's kindness. He paints that double s…

Igbo

Feminist

Yr. 2024

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Phyno

Village Girl

Janus 2

Black Woman

Stronger Together

Zen Flower

River Journey

Royal Drummers

Introspection

Camouflage

Monologue

Feminist